The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 16: Conditional execution August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22 Raymond Chen Making decisions.
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers August 16, 2022 Aug 16, 2022 08/16/22 Raymond Chen Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 15: Control transfer August 15, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 08/15/22 Raymond Chen We're going places.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 14: Barriers August 12, 2022 Aug 12, 2022 08/12/22 Raymond Chen Keeping things in the right order.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 13: Atomic access August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22 Raymond Chen Don't let someone else get a word in edgewise.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 12: Memory access and alignment August 10, 2022 Aug 10, 2022 08/10/22 Raymond Chen The load and store part of the load/store architecture.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 11: Loading addresses August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22 Raymond Chen Finding a needle in the haystack of the 64-bit address space.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 10: Loading constants August 8, 2022 Aug 8, 2022 08/8/22 Raymond Chen Getting them into a register.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 9: Sign and zero extension August 5, 2022 Aug 5, 2022 08/5/22 Raymond Chen Nothing new here, but old things being used in clever ways.
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 8: Bit shifting and rotation August 4, 2022 Aug 4, 2022 08/4/22 Raymond Chen Sliding around.